FKIE_CVE-2013-2038

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-02-06 17:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:52
Severity
Summary
The NMEA0183 driver in gpsd before 3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon termination) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a GPS packet with a malformed $GPGGA interpreted sentence that lacks certain fields and a terminator. NOTE: a separate issue in the AIS driver was also reported, but it might not be a vulnerability.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50Exploit, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.osvdb.org/93000
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.osvdb.org/93001
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gpsd-dev/2013-05/msg00000.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/02/20
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1820-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/93000
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/93001
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gpsd_project gpsd *
gpsd_project gpsd 3.0
gpsd_project gpsd 3.1
gpsd_project gpsd 3.2
gpsd_project gpsd 3.3
gpsd_project gpsd 3.4
gpsd_project gpsd 3.5
gpsd_project gpsd 3.6
gpsd_project gpsd 3.7
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
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